On October 26, U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Kuala Lumpur and opened a five-day Asia tour. Looking at the distance between China and the United States in South Korea, the time is getting closer and closer, and Trump believes it is a great opportunity to put ultimate pressure on China, and the U.S. side has no bottom line.

On Air Force One flight to Kuala Lumpur, Trump once again answered reporters¡¯ questions about the US-China tariffs. Trump said he expected bilateral talks with China in South Korea on October 30 and that the two sides would discuss a lot of topics.

What if an agreement can't be reached? Trump's attitude has changed dramatically, and he believes that both sides should "give in to each other". Trump also made a direct threat: "China must give in, and so will we, otherwise we will increase taxes on China by 157%." Of course, Trump also believes that such high tariffs are unsustainable.

On October 26, China and the United States in the fifth round of economic and trade consultations held in advance, the scheduled time of three days (25-27th). On the outcome of this round of talks, the representatives of the two sides were very different. According to Bloomberg reports, U.S. Finance Secretary Bessent said after the end of the talks that the two sides discussed issues including agricultural products procurement, TikTok, Fentanyl, trade.

In fact, basically every time the two sides hold talks, they must mention the extension of the mutual tariff suspension period, Fentanyl tariffs, anti-drug cooperation, 301 ship charges measures, export control, agricultural products trade, etc. Besent pointed out that the two sides this time developed a "very successful framework".

Besent commented on this: "I think this framework is constructive and far-reaching. It will allow us to continue to move forward and lay the foundation for the leaders of the two countries to meet under a very successful framework."

In an interview with Columbia, Bessent said Trump's idea of imposing a 100% tariff on China "has actually been put aside."It's fascinating to know that almost at the same time Trump is still threatening to impose a 157% tariff on China.

Besent also predicted that China would purchase large amounts of soybeans and delay full regulation of rare earths. U.S. Trade Representative Greer also stood out to speak, and he also believed that the Sino-U.S. economic and trade talks were productive, covering many issues, and the two sides have discussed the latest details of a proposal for a so-called trade agreement.

However, China's statement is completely different from that of the US. After this round of economic and trade talks between China and the United States, Li Chenggang, international trade negotiator and vice minister of China's Ministry of Commerce, walked out of the venue with a relaxed expression. He directly informed the reporters waiting outside the venue.

In the face of reporters, the two words of Li Zheng Steel are profoundly illustrative and deserve the Trump administration to read seriously. China and the United States have had constructive discussions on this. The United States expressed its position as tough, and China is firm in safeguarding its interests."Do you understand the meaning of this sentence?

In the words of netizens, the two sides had a heated quarrel. As soon as the two sides came up, they slapped each other's tables. The United States expressed a strong position to China, while China directly fought back, saying that they would accompany them to the end if they continued to fight, but the consensus was that both sides agreed to continue talking. Attention everyone " China is firm in safeguarding its interestsTen words are a response to Trump¡¯s threat of tariffs.

The second sentence,"After more than a day of very intense discussions, China and the United States constructively discussed some plans to properly handle the concerns of both sides on these issues and reached a preliminary consensus. In the next step, each of them will perform the internal approval procedures." China once again mentioned constructive discussions and emphasized that preliminary consensus was reached.

Compared with China, the United States is obviously more optimistic, and Besent has already begun to advocate that he believes that the Sino-US trade war is likely to usher in a "phased solution" when China and the United States meet. If we understand the causes and consequences of this trade war, China is willing to sit down and negotiate with the United States, which in itself reflects the responsibility of a major country.

Some people in the United States also agree with this. Recently, Tan Sen, chairman of the China Trade Council, pointed out when attending an event in Shanghai that Trump himself provoked a tariff war, which led to the current situation. Tansen believes that if Trump wants to reach an "excellent agreement" with China, he must go back to the trade war, otherwise it will be difficult to reach an agreement that is satisfactory to both sides.

Tanson also pointed out that compared to the first term of Trump, China has made a major change in the strategy of tariff war negotiations, China is clearly more subdued, and also more powerful to say "no" directly to the US side.Tanson said: "In the Trump 1.0 era, China's negotiation strategy is the United States to act first, China responds in a reciprocal way. and in the current Trump 2.0 era, although China has so far been dominated by reciprocal countermeasures, countermeasures have had a degree of escalation."

Judging from the results of the current Sino-US economic and trade talks, there is still no solution to the deep contradictions between China and the United States, and all the responsibility for this lies with the United States. As early as Trump's first term in office in 2017, the United States had clearly positioned China as a "strategic competitor."

Since then, the U.S. government has firmly regarded China as America¡¯s most powerful opponent.When Biden took office, the U.S. further described China as ¡°the only competitor with both intent and ability to restore the international order¡±, notably pointing out that the U.S. faces comprehensive competition with China in the fields of technology, military, and economics.

Based on this background, the U.S. side in order to suppress and contain China's development, can say nothing to its extreme, and this tariff war can be seen as a maximum pressure on China, forcing China to the United States to compromise. as for Trump in the pre-US economic and trade talks threatened to impose a 157% tariff on China, in fact, absolutely no sense, can not generate any threat to China at all.

In short, the United States has gradually compromised, and many economic and trade talks between the two sides will also help to avoid further deterioration of Sino-US relations. In the words of experts, "What the US can do now is to reduce its own losses as much as possible. If there are fewer conflicts, there will be fewer conflicts."